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School Choice Observance approaching Jan 23-Jan 29 2011
Public Schools in Los Angeles are failing, in fact 250 to be exact have already failed, 250 public schools in one state! That’s an amazing number; imagine if your child was forced to attend one of those plagued 250? Imagine if you were tied to a failing school simply because you purchased a home in a certain zip code before you had children or when your children were very young?
We tend not to think about our freedom to provide the best possible education for our children until this freedom is taken aw

For those that had their local North Carolina state legislative briefings cancelled last week due to inclement weather, please see below for rescheduled dates and times.Earlier legislative briefings have been a great success with old and new activists joining together to meet and plan to take on the challenges of the new year. We have an unparalleled opportunity to promote limited government policies at the state, local, and federal levels. Come out and here how you can be a part of it.

It's not everyday that we get to see the hard work of free market researchers and analysts demonstrated so vividly. That's why this post is so special. Because, on the very same day that the Mackinac Center for Public Policy published this paper on the striking relationship between smuggling and cigarette taxes, we have this story about a man caught trafficking 193 untaxed cartons of cigarettes.

Deneen Borelli, a Project 21 fellow, Fox News contributor, and FreedomWorks fellow has a great new piece up at FoxNews.com on the baseless claims that Glenn Beck supporters are racist and the true intentions of NAACP President Ben Jealous:

There's a great new book out there that anyone who wants a better understanding of the roots of today's fiscal crisis and what we can actually do about it should checkout.
It's written by David Breuhan and it's called "Spread the Wealth: More Haves, Fewer Have Nots." Breuhan is a money-manager and has taught Austrian economics at the graduate level. He has a keen understanding of the implications of trade restrictions, high taxes, deficits, and spending and is able to put it in simple terms that anyone can understand.